Ten people wake up with a second chance at a year they already lived, and in the South Korean series 365: Repeat the Year, that gift turns out to carry a cost none of them anticipated.
What is 365: Repeat the Year about?
The 2020 mystery-drama follows a detective in Seoul's violent crimes division who is unexpectedly pulled back twelve months into his own past, given the rare chance to reset choices he thought were permanent. He isn't alone: nine other people find themselves thrown into the same year-long do-over, and their intersecting fates start to bend in ways none of them can fully explain. What begins as personal relief -- a fresh run at a life he'd settled into -- turns into an investigation, as a string of strange, overlapping incidents forces him to treat his own second chance as a case to be solved rather than a gift to enjoy. The series, adapted from the Japanese novel Repeat, threads police procedural tension through a high-concept premise, asking what changes and what stays fixed when ten lives are rewound at once.
About the cast
The ensemble is led by Lee Jun-hyuk and Nam Ji-hyun, with Kim Ji-soo, Yang Dong-geun, Lee Si-a, Yoon Joo-sang, Im Ha-ryong and Jung Moon-sung rounding out the group of people whose years loop back together. Director Kim Kyung-hee keeps the show's focus on how differently each character responds to the same impossible circumstance, from quiet relief to open suspicion.
Context & significance
Time-loop premises are common in genre television, but 365: Repeat the Year narrows its focus to a full year rather than a single repeating day, which changes the shape of the mystery: consequences accumulate slowly, and the detective's instincts are as much about patience as deduction. Its South Korean production places it alongside the country's strong run of mystery and procedural dramas, with a runtime built for hour-long episodes rather than short-form viewing.
Watching 365: Repeat the Year on Ktime
365: Repeat the Year streams on K-Time as part of the platform's international drama catalogue, built with a Farsi-language interface for Persian-speaking audiences. The series is not currently available with Persian dubbing or subtitles, so it plays in its original Korean. The page can be read without an account, though watching it requires logging in to K-Time.