Lovely Runner

~ I will protect both you and me. ~

Overview:

Right after Ryu Sun-jae, a top star, ends his life, Im Sol, his top fan, somehow ends up at a time when they were in high school and tries to protect him. A fantasy romance unfolds where people who missed each other in time finally meet.

Created by:

Kim Bbang

Status:

Ended

Language:

Korean

First air date:

4/8/2024

Last air date:

5/28/2024

Key words:

love at first sight
based on novel or book
affectation
time travel
romance
swimmer
butterfly effect
2000s
playful
inspirational
music
idol
fantasy
past and present
based on web novel
sentimental
romantic
second chance romance
appreciative
enduring love

Seasons

Season 1

16 Episodes

Cast

Byeon Woo-seok

~ as ~

Ryu Sun-jae

Kim Hye-yoon

~ as ~

Im Sol

Song Geon-hee

~ as ~

Kim Tae-sung

Lee Seung-hyub

~ as ~

Baek In-hyuk

Jung Young-ju

~ as ~

Park Bok-soon

Seong Byeong-suk

~ as ~

Jung Mal-ja

Song Ji-ho

~ as ~

Im Geum

Seo Hye-won

~ as ~

Lee Hyun-joo

Kim Won-hae

~ as ~

Ryu Geun-deok

Ahn Sang-woo

~ as ~

Kim Seok-hyun

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Reviews (3)

Bignay
Written 1 year(s) ago
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1. - Everyone has its own opinion,
2. the story of keep changing life or future is just too much. Its sucks and getting on ones nerve . the story is not becoming complete even it is fiction. Its so different from other Korean drama. There is no wholeness that even you dont like the story you just keep on continuing watching. this is a story of which the writer is the one who keep on running, get confused, making the reader bored. The music is good, the acting of the actor is very good seems innocent in all the facts but the actress leading role is too much OA or in some part less or boring. I love Korean film, movies music etc.. but this one SUCKS .
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leizyegg
Written 1 year(s) ago
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my supposed diary entry for letterboxd, i'm exposing here for the meantime!

I love them with all my heart, and I could write essays about their story, their soulmatism and the everything nonstop because suddenly I want my love to look so beautiful like theirs!! their love is so beautiful and poetic to the point that every song I heard I dedicated to them…I even have a playlist! I never loved a drama as deeply as I did with them!!!! literal LIKE UNG KILIG???1?1?1? GRABE I had severe case of kilig every week and tHAT WAS BECAUSE OF THEM. I’D GET GIDDY AS HELL EVERY MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS AND I HATED MONDAY LIKE HOW SUNJAE USED TO HATE THE RAIN BUT THEN SOL CAME!!! it’s the same case with me, but it was lovely runner that came to me 🥹💞 HAY ‘WHAT WILL I DO WHEN THIS ENDS’ IS WHAT I ASKED EVERY WEEK AND ME THINKS IM GONNA REWATCH THIS FOREVER

ISTG MAY MAGIC TONG LOVRUN GRABE ADIK NA ADIK AQ DITO LITERAL NA MAHAL NA MAHAL Q NA SILA HUHU HINDI PA AKO READY MAG BYE FR!!!!!!! TAPOS ANO GUSTO K NLNG OMIYAK EVERYWEEK BCS OF KILIG AND KILIGIN AT TUMAWA NONSTOP HUHUHSUAHUSHWUS CLA ANG DAHILAN BKET AKO FUELED EVERYWEEK I SWAER

oa na kung oa pero i became a fan of them both after this and even the other casts :((( its that deep for me like super duper love this drama!!! no one will top you now lovely runner, at least for me u will always be my favorite, my no. 1 ever!!!

i just finished watching :((( im so sad and super happy at the same time cz wdym a perfect drama came to life and i watched it and i loved it so much it became my actual favorite!! thank you my loves, hyeyoon, wooseok, geonhee, seunghyub, directors and writer lee si eun, and everyone else for accepting and making lovely runner possible!! i love them sm i cant stop saying that lmao

it’s the way this review is so scattered!!!! i just love them so much to the point i rambled everything i wanna say

my diary entry from may 22-28 !!! wait till i finish my finals i’ll rewatch lovrun after i catch up with hyeyoon-wooseok films i missed :D
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ABTR
Written 1 year(s) ago
10
I'm sitting here with a smile on my face crying tears of joy. I feel like a crazy person.

The story, the acting, the chemistry. Never have I gotten as invested in a k-drama as I did with this one. Byeon Woo Seok and Kim Hye Joon were absolute perfection and a joy to watch together. The story was lighthearted and cute, full of adorable moments and smiles, but when the emotional moments came, they hit hard. I loved every second of it, including all the small side stories of the secondary characters. Every last detail was perfect.

I'd thought Park Gyu Young and Cha Eun Woo were super cute in A good day to be a dog, but nah. Same with Jun Ho being the most adorable he-falls-first male lead ever. Or CLOY having a top-tier romance story. This show left them in the dust.

Sonagi was a lovely song and so personal to Seon Jae and poignant to the story, and I love that there were scenes of live-played music. That may seem like an insignificant detail, but it's so unusual in k-dramas (even in the ones with idols playing the leads) and was so wonderfully unexpected and exciting.

This drama will stay with me for years to come and surely bring a smile to my face whenever I think back on it.

Someone get me a yellow umbrella so I can daydream about fated love the next time it rains! 💛💛