Updated: June 21, 2023
Here’s a collection of quotes from the Korean drama, My Perfect Stranger (2023):
“We have just arrived in the year 1987. And there’s no way to go back. We’re stuck here.” – Yoo Hae Jun
“They say good shoes take you to a good place.” – Yoon Young
- “You may be poor but you should have some class.” – Ko Mi Sook
- “Have I ever even imagined a world without my mom?” – Yoon Young
“If I ever get to travel back in time, I want to go back to that day and hold them one last time. Your tiny, beautiful hands.” – Yoon Young’s mom
- “If you drop a seed here by accident, it’ll become a tree in 30 years. Your one action can completely change someone’s future.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “I know who you are, what kind of person you are, and how light and insignificant your love is.” – Yoon Young
“Have you ever realized how someone felt but it was too late? If only I had realized a little earlier. If only I knew a bit faster. Everything could’ve changed.” – Yoon Young
“I don’t think I can go back just yet. There’s something I must do here.” – Yoon Young
- “I’m sure your dad didn’t mean to miss out on these occasions. He must have had a reason.” – Baek Hee Sub
- “Blackmailing only works on someone who’s afraid of losing something.” – Yoon Young
- “When you charge forward after the target only, it is likely that you will fall into a trap.” – Ko Min Soo
“Who are you? Why in the world did you come here?” – Yoo Hae Jun
“Mom was giving me the time she couldn’t have.” – Yoon Young
“I’ll give it back to you now. The time you lost. Everything you gave up. I’ll get everything back to you.” – Yoon Young
“I feel like it’s time for us to become honest with each other. The fact that we met here is probably not a coincidence.” – Yoon Young
“How nice would it be if I could ever change at least one moment?” – Yoon Young
- “The person who is loved always knows, whoever they are.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “How could I have misunderstood her intention this badly? How could I fail to understand her until the very last moment?” – Yoon Young
- “It’s unfair of you to hate yourself, and you were ready to give up.’ – Yoo Hae Jun
“He was too distant to call family. But he was too close to be a stranger to me.” – Baek Yoon Young
- “Knowing the truth means I have the power to change fate. And it’s hope that comes with responsibility.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “There are problems that reach the same conclusion no matter how much you try to change them.” – Baek Yoon Young
“When do you think people fall into the gravest danger? The hope that you can correct all the wrongs. The delusion that you can make all your mistakes go away as if they never happened. As you become intoxicated by this sweet, pathetic pipe dream, you realize at some point that no wrong in the world can be corrected. But by the time you realize that, you will already have been crushed by the wheel of fate. What’s important is the direction.” – Ko Mi Sook
- “If it’s bound to happen, it will happen no matter what we do.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “There is no future I can change with the facts I know.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “You must hang in there. I know that you’re in agony.” – Yoo Hae Jun
“Shall we give each other a hug for a second? So many things happened today.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “Who am I? And where am I? Did I seriously travel to this far past just to hear you say that to me?” – Baek Yoon Young
- “To me, from beginning to end, you were just a pathetic person whom I neither understood nor wanted to understand.” – Baek Yoon Young
- “If you stay around, someone will get hurt.” – Baek Hee Sub
- “Whoever I cherish and care for, they leave me.” – Baek Hee Sub
“When you’re scared and lonely, close your eyes and imagine a small door. I’ll always wait for you behind that door. You just have to open it.” – Lee Soon Ae
- “Half of then pretended they didn’t know him. But the other half told me the truth.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “I don’t know what to do. I’m just sitting here like a fool. Here on your darkest night. I am.” – Baek Yoon Young
- “Do you have any idea how long 300 years is? There must have been several droughts and floods. But it managed to stay in this spot without getting swept away in the water.” – Yoo Hae Jun
“The things you didn’t like up close will become sad from a distance after some time passes.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “Maybe, for some truths, they’re bound to reach them. Even if they take the long way, the person who needs to find the truth will reach it.” – Baek Yoon Young
- “Some truths end up reaching their destination. No matter how long it takes, the truth reaches the one who needs it the most.” – Yoo Hae Jun
“You see, humans can live only up to 100 years, if they’re lucky. But books last forever.” – Lee Kyung Ae
- “Once you start something, you must see it through to the end.” – Baek Hee Sub
- “It was a truly happy day. I don’t think I’ve had a perfect day like that where I was so happy.” – Baek Yoon Young
- “It felt weird. To face someone who abandoned me.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “I get that you want to comfort me. But you keep missing the mark.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “I think of you fondly.” – Baek Yoon Young
- “What I want is a future with you in it.” – Baek Yoon Young
“We don’t have much time but let’s just think that it has paused.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “Time flies but love remains.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “Has anything been resolved for keeping quiet?” – Baek Yoon Young’s grandmom
- “If things don’t change, then we’ll have to change them.” – Yoo Hae Jun
“I’ve really wanted to meet my precious baby I had with someone I loved. If my child were to look at me with sparkling eyes, I’d find them so beautiful.” – Lee Chung Ah
- “Whoever your father is, nothing changes the way I perceive you.” – Baek Yoon Young
- “All my life, the only thing I saw was your back turned toward me.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “I was abandoned by someone who should’ve given me unconditional love. Do you know how miserable that feels?” – Yoon Yeon Woo
- “Perhaps it is our fate to be trapped here forever.” – Baek Yoon Young
“We can jump 30 years in the blink of an eye. Then I realized that there are people who have to endure each and everyday of those 30 years.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “And so we arrived in the future safely.” – Yoo Hae Jun
- “For over 30 years, he waited for me in the same place. He didn’t forget the promise he made with me.” – Yoo Hae Jun
“It’s never too late. Because the present is the past to your future.” – Baek Yoon Young
- “I guess people who are meant for each other end up meeting each other no matter what.”
- “Why do I need more gifts when I already have you?” – Baek Yoon Young
“We didn’t meet each other by chance. We were meant to run into each other.” – Yoo Hae Jun
Genre: Time travel, Fantasy, Melodrama
Also known as: Run Into You; A Chance Encounter; You, Whom I Met By Chance; Met You By Chance
Synopsis: Two people meet by chance through time travel and get stuck in 1987.
No of episodes: 16
Cast: Kim Dong-wook and Jin Ki-joo
Writer: Baek So Yeon
Director: Kang Soo Yeon
Network: KBS2
Streaming platform: Viu
Date: May 1, 2023
Subtitle translation: Viu
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