The End of a Time Called You and Time Travel Explained

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The End of a Time Called You and Time Travel Explained

THE K-drama A time called you is a very complex story with an ending that may leave viewers’ heads spinning. One of the best K-dramas currently streaming on Netflix, the series begins with Jun-hee mourning the loss of her boyfriend a year after he died in a plane crash. However, she doesn’t believe he is really dead, and when she receives a recorder with the song “Gather My Tears” by Seo Ji-won, she listens and is transported back in time.

The show then jumps forward to several years, focusing primarily on 1998 and 2023. Jun-hee is living the life of a teenage girl named Min-ju while trying to solve her murder, which she knows will occur on October 13, 1998. Coming soon, she falls in love with a teenager named Si-heonwho looks exactly like her late boyfriend Yeon-ju. Although all mysteries are solved at the end of A time called youthe complicated ending may require further explanation.

Who Really Kills Min-Ju in a Time Called You and Why

Min-Ju takes her own life

The greatest mystery of A time called you is the one behind Min-ju’s murder. Initially, it appears that her high school classmate, In-gyu, is the one who kills her, as her hearing aid was left at the scene of the first attack on her. In-gyu still takes the blame for Min-ju’s murder, and in the future, it is revealed that he spent years in prison before taking his own life out of guilt. However, In-gyu is not responsible for Min-ju’s deathdespite what Si-heon always assumed.

The true story of Min-ju’s death is much more complicated. Jun-hee and Yeon-jun’s friend from 2023, Chan-Yeong, tries to murder Min-ju while in the body of her older brother, Chan-hui. Chan-Yeong becomes obsessed with Min-ju and in the end she encourages him to kill her because she is so unhappy with her life. When Jun-hee takes control of her body, her fearless and more outgoing personality wins out over Si-heon and her other classmates.

Chan-Yeong is woken up by the police in 2023, causing Min-Ju to commit suicide.

However, when Min-ju returns to her body, it is difficult to maintain her new personality. Upon returning to her shy state, she feels like no one cares about her. If she takes her own life, she believes no one will remember her. That’s why Chan-Yeong offers to kill her so everyone can finally recognize her. However, before he can, Chan-Yeong is awakened by the police in 2023, causing Min-Ju to take his own life as he had originally planned.

Jun-Hee’s Time Travel Plan to Save Min-Ju’s Life Explained

Jun-Hee allows In-Gyu to save Min-Ju


Jun-hee looking at something in A Time Called You

While Jun-hee initially intends to reunite with her boyfriend, who she believes did not die in a plane crash because his body was never recovered, she finds herself drawn into a murder mystery involving Min-ju. As she falls in love with Si-heon and adapts to Min-ju’s life, she decides to save the high school student, even though it prevents her and Si-heon from getting to know each other. Jun-hee makes this decision when she discovers that her actions during time travel got everyone into this mess.

She travels back to 1998 one last time, returning to the moment when Min-ju is about to take her own life.

Jun-hee feels an immense responsibility to make things right for the sake of everyone she’s met. She travels back to 1998 one last time, returning to the moment when Min-ju is about to take her own life. Instead, Jun-hee allows In-gyu to save Min-ju.

How the 1998 and 2023 A Time Called You Characters Are Connected

They are not the same characters


Jun-hee and Yeon-jun hugging in A Time Called You

A time called you follows Jun-hee as she goes in and out of Min-Ju’s body. Although Jun-hee and Min-ju’s similar appearances suggest that they are the same person and that Jun-hee is actually just time traveling back to her high school state, it is revealed that In 1998, Jun-hee is only 11 years old. Yeon-jun and Si-heon also look the same, but Jun-hee reveals that Yeon-jun wouldn’t have been old enough in 1998 to be in high school.

Of course, the characters in 2023 are not the same people as the characters in 1998.

However, Si-heon also travels through time to various periods where he takes over Yeon-ju’s body and lives his life. Due to the age differences in 1998, it is clear that the characters in 2023 are not the same people as the characters in 1998. Instead, they are intertwined due to time travel.

Yeon-Jun’s death explained

Yeon-Jun dies in plane crash


Yeon-jun with a sky in the background in A Time Called You

In 2023, it has been a year since Jun-hee’s boyfriend Yeon-ju passed away in a plane crash. She begins receiving gifts that she believes are from him and truly suspects he is alive when the messages she sends him are marked as read. She also convinced the scarred man to A time called you It could be Yeon-ju in disguise.

The mystery of Yeon-ju’s death isn’t answered until the end, and it’s quite confusing as it’s related to Si-heon being in her body. Yeon-ju dies in the plane crash, despite Jun-hee denying it, but Si-heon is in her body when it happens. An older Si-heon warns him about the accident, but he gets on the plane anyway. After all, if Yeon-ju never dies, Jun-hee will never travel back in time and meet Si-heon.

The scarred man of a time called you

The scarred man is Si-Heon


Scarred man with hands crossed in A Time Called You

Another confusing aspect A time called you What is intertwined with Yeon-ju’s death is the scarred man’s identity. He appears early in the series, and although Jun-hee is convinced he is Yeon-ju, he is Si-heon. Si-heon knows everything about Jun-hee because he is dating Jun-hee in Yeon-ju’s body. However, when Yeon-ju dies, Si-heon returns to his real body and wakes up in the hospital in 2002, following the bus accident that left him scarred and in need of a cane. The scarred man – Si-heon – warns Yeon-ju about the plane crash.

Jun-Hee and Si-Heon end up together?

The ending leaves your connection open


Si-heon looks at Jun-hee on the other side of the bus.

After saving Min-ju’s life, Jun-hee destroys the time travel recorder so that no one else can tamper with the timeline the way she does. By doing so, she erases all her memories of everything that happened, including meeting Si-heon. Everyone else’s memories are also erased. All the characters live their lives, but the end of A time called you suggests that the memories may not have been erased after all.

She and Si-heon could rekindle their relationship in the current timeline.

On a bus ride home, Si-heon hears a woman singing a song into the recorder and becomes convinced that the woman is Min-ju. She denies it, but when she gets off the bus, Si-heon follows her. They share a final look that suggests they have a connection. The K-drama’s emotional ending doesn’t confirm that Si-heon found Jun-hee again or that they got back together. However, A time called you suggests that the woman is Jun-hee, so she and Si-heon could rekindle their relationship in the current timeline.

The true meaning of a time called the end

Destiny exists, but messing with the timeline causes problems


The crime scene in A Time Called You

When A time called you ended, Jun-Hee realized that her time travel was what was causing all the pain to Min-Ju and In-Gyu. She realized that no matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t control her destiny by traveling through time to force it to happen. The whole meaning here is that a person cannot change his destiny, but if he is patient, he may discover that destiny has plans for him. When Si-Heon seems to recognize Jun-Hee at the end, it shows that the couple can find a path without betrayal.

A time called you showed early on that the two were always destined to meet in the past. Attempts to “fix” the future have never disrupted or altered the timeline. Instead, it was always meant to be, and they were always destined to be together in the end. This is a story about eternal love, and although they doubted it and didn’t always believe it was destined to happen, fate never forgot about them. Jun-Hee eliminated the option of time travel once and for all, which caused the universe to correct itself.

Based on the Taiwanese TV series Someday or One Day, A Time Called You is a South Korean romantic fantasy drama that revolves around a young woman named Koo Yeon-jun, mourning the death of her boyfriend. Koo Yeon-jun’s life takes a turn when she wakes up in the 1990s – in the body of an eighteen-year-old girl named Min-ju. As she tries to solve the mystery and return home to her original body, her life becomes even more complicated when she meets a young man who looks identical to her ex-lover.

Cast

Ahn Hyo-seop, Jeon Yeo-been, Kang Hoon, Park Hyuk-kwon, Jang Hye-jin, Lee Min-goo, Sung Ki-yoon

Release date

September 8, 2023

Seasons

1

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