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Bright, bubbly Shin Ji Hyun is the girl who has everything - wealthy, everything--wealthy, adoring parents, a devoted fiance (Kang Min Ho), and a long-time best friend (Shin In Jung). On the other side of town, Song Yi Kyung, who once had loved ones and a job at a high-end hotel, is now alone, working at a convenience store, and finding increasingly little to live for.
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* SenpaiKohai: Or, sunbae/hoobae for the Korean setting. The Scheduler sometimes turns to a senior Scheduler for advice about Ji Hyun's case, and in episode 9 [[NeverMessWithGranny she]] even shows up to punish him for interfering in human affairs.
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* [[SempaiKohai Sunbae Hoobae]]: SenpaiKohai: Or, sunbae/hoobae for the Korean setting. The Scheduler sometimes turns to a senior Scheduler for advice about Ji Hyun's case, and in episode 9 [[NeverMessWithGranny she]] even shows up to punish him for interfering in human affairs.
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* TimeTitle: It revolves around Jihyun who enters a coma due to a car accident. She's given a second chance to live on one condition: she must borrow the body of another woman and have 3 people cry genuine tears for her within 49 days.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The original Korean title is 49 Il, which is literally ''49 Days'' in English. When free TV network ABS-CBN showed the Filipino dub of the drama two months after it ended its original run, it was titled ''Pure Love'' perhaps to avoid confusion--a homegrown SupernaturalSoapOpera, ''100 Days to Heaven'', already started its run two months earlier. (Both ran during weekday evenings in the UsefulNotes/PrimeTime block, the former being shown three hours later.)
** However, this causes a problem of NamesTheSame when the Filipino ForeignRemake aired on TFC (ABS-CBN's international channel), the listings on [=DirecTV=] incorrectly mark the show's language as "Chinese", because there was a Chinese show with the same English name.
** However, this causes a problem of NamesTheSame when the Filipino ForeignRemake aired on TFC (ABS-CBN's international channel), the listings on [=DirecTV=] incorrectly mark the show's language as "Chinese", because there was a Chinese show with the same English name.
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Ji Hyun's fiance Min Ho and her best friend In Jung have been together longer than Ji Hyun herself has been with Min Ho. They continue to meet up behind her back until she witnesses them together. Drving away in confusion, Ji Hyun has her accident.]]
** Yi Kyung accused Yi Soo of this prior to his accident.
** Yi Kyung accused Yi Soo of this prior to his accident.
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* {{Tsundere}}: Kang who attempted to hide his feelings for Ji Hyun behind a JerkassFacade out of consideration for both her and his friend Min Ho. When Ji Hyun shows up in Yi Kyung's body, he spends half his time blowing up at her and the other half uncharacteristically letting her do whatever she wants.
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* {{Tsundere}}: Kang who attempted to hide his feelings for Ji Hyun behind by pretending to be a JerkassFacade jerk out of consideration for both her and his friend Min Ho. When Ji Hyun shows up in Yi Kyung's body, he spends half his time blowing up at her and the other half uncharacteristically letting her do whatever she wants.
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* JerkassFacade: Both Kang and the Scheduler attempt to pull this off -- Kang to hide his feelings for Ji Hyun and the Scheduler due to his responsibilities as a [[{{Psychopomp}} Scheduler]] that include staying out of the affairs of humans.
* JustFollowingOrders: The Scheduler. Also his boss.
* JerkassFacade: Both Kang and the Scheduler attempt to pull this off -- Kang to hide his feelings for Ji Hyun and the Scheduler due to his responsibilities as a [[{{Psychopomp}} Scheduler]] that include staying out of the affairs of humans.
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* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The original Korean title is 49 Il, which is literally ''49 Days'' in English. When free TV network ABS-CBN showed the Filipino dub of the drama two months after it ended its original run, it was titled ''Pure Love'' perhaps to avoid confusion--a homegrown SupernaturalSoapOpera, ''100 Days to Heaven'', already started its run two months earlier. (Both ran during weekday evenings in the PrimeTime UsefulNotes/PrimeTime block, the former being shown three hours later.)
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Bright, bubbly Shin Ji Hyun is [[SpoiledSweet the girl who has everything]] everything - wealthy, adoring parents, a devoted fiance (Kang Min Ho), and a long-time best friend (Shin In Jung). On the other side of town, Song Yi Kyung, who once had loved ones and a job at a high-end hotel, is now alone, working at a convenience store, and finding increasingly little to live for.
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49 Days is a 2011 South KoreanDrama totaling 20 episodes.
Bright, bubbly Shin Ji Hyun is [[SpoiledSweet the girl who has everything]] - wealthy, adoring parents, a devoted fiance (Kang Min Ho), and a long-time best friend (Shin In Jung). On the other side of town, Song Yi Kyung, who once had loved ones and a job at a high-end hotel, is now alone, working at a convenience store, and finding increasingly little to live for.
An unsuccessful suicide attempt by Yi Kyung leads to Ji Hyun's death shortly before her wedding, but as Ji Hyun [[ItIsNotYourTime was not fated to die that day]], the Scheduler (a reaper) gives Ji Hyun a chance to earn back her life.
He gives Ji Hyun permission to take over Yi Kyung's body while she's sleeping. She has 49 days to find three people unrelated by blood who have truly loved her and will cry sincere tears of grief for her. As she sets out to find these people, Ji Hyun discovers that her perfect life may not have been so perfect after all. As the 49 days pass, the lives of Ji Hyun and Yi Kyung collide and just may be the salvation of them both, as they discover the difference between true and false love and begin to come alive again, each in her own way.
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! The series contains examples of:
* ActorAllusion: The Scheduler being a BadassBiker. [[UnstoppableHighKick Hmm..]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Literally, since the souls ride a cosmic elevator into the next life.
* AltarTheSpeed: Ji Hyun's father pushes Min Ho and Ji Hyun to push forward their wedding due to his financial troubles, and they agree to do so only for Ji Hyun to get into the accident.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Yi Soo comes back for one day. Ji Hyun comes back also, but she wasn't 'technically' dead.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: The first episode starts of with Han Kang [[spoiler: being nervous about Ji Hyun's upcoming engagement party, as if he is Ji Hyun's fiance]].
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Min Ho and In Jung both carefully planned taking over the Shin family's property and land through deliberately putting Ji Hyun in danger and manipulating her into thinking Min Ho saved her.]]
* BigEater: Ji Hyun, whose stomach is constantly growling
* BitchInSheepsClothing: In Jung, [[spoiler: who set up the hostile takeover two years before the beginning of the arc, using her boyfriend as bait.]]
* BittersweetEnding. [[spoiler: Yes, Ji Hyun and Yi Soo are both dead, but both Ji Hyun's father and his company have been saved, Yi Kyung has finally regained her will to live and found her family, and Min Ho and In Jung have repented for their crimes.]]
* BlatantLies: Ji Hyun (in Yi Kyung's body) pretending not to be Ji Hyun
* BodyAndHost
* TheCameo: Kim Hyung Bum as another 49 day-er, trying to get his tears
* CelestialBureaucracy: The rules and regulations for the 49-Day Traveler are pretty convoluted.
* ChalkOutline: Shown in flashback. It's Song Yi Soo after his fatal accident, and the last thing Yi Kyung thinks about before throwing herself in front of the truck.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: Yi Soo/Yi Kyung. Ji Hyun/Kang.]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Tears that have been shed evaporate with a colorful poof based on the feelings behind them, with those of pure love evaporating into a white mist.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The original Korean title is 49 Il, which is literally ''49 Days'' in English. When free TV network ABS-CBN showed the Filipino dub of the drama two months after it ended its original run, it was titled ''Pure Love'' perhaps to avoid confusion--a homegrown SupernaturalSoapOpera, ''100 Days to Heaven'', already started its run two months earlier. (Both ran during weekday evenings in the PrimeTime block, the former being shown three hours later.)
* ConvenientComa: For both Ji Hyun and her dad President Shin Il Suk.
* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Song Yi Kyung, when she begins hearing Ji Hyun towards the end of the time limit.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Min Ho, [[spoiler: who 'legally' attempts to wrestle control of Ji Hyun's property and her father's company]]
* DaddysGirl: Ji Hyun
* DeadPersonConversation
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: Both Yi Soo and Ji Hyun who flirt with the afterlife before dying for real.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: The TallDarkAndSnarky Scheduler has many moments of this, especially when it comes to Ji Hyun.
* DeathAmnesia: If Ji Hyun comes back from her coma, she won't remember any of the events since her accident.
* DeathsHourglass: Or in this case, Death's Countdown Cellphone.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: For ''all'' three main couples.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: Han Kang
* DontFearTheReaper: The Scheduler
* DoubleSpeak: The Scheduler refers to an individual's deaths as 'appointments.'
* DrivenToSuicide: Yi Kyung, who attempts suicide twice. Both times, she's stopped by Dr. Noh.
** It is implied that she frequently attempts suicide due to extreme loneliness.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: All three male leads.
* EveryoneIsRelated: In the best karmic fashion.
* FetchQuest: Ji Hyun must find three people to cry genuine tears of grief for her. They are to be collected in a teardrop-shaped glass necklace.
* GrandTheftMe: In order to earn her three tears, Ji Hyun is given the opportunity to possess Yi Kyung's body over the course of [[TitleDrop 49 days]] whenever Yi Kyung is sleeping. However, Ji Hyun only possesses Yi Kyung's body because her own is obviously incapacited and because Yi Kyung indirectly caused the accident that put Ji Hyun in a coma.
* GenkiGirl: Ji Hyun
* GhostAmnesia: The Scheduler [[spoiler: until he partially regains his memories and finds out he is Song Yi Soo.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: In Jung's main motivation for her plots.
* GrimReaper: Don't call The Scheduler this. He doesn't like it. Really.
* [[spoiler:HerHeartWillGoOn]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: Yi Kyung is QueenSeondeok.
** The father arranging the wedding, is also the father in Prosecutor Princess.
* HiddenDepths: Ji Hyun learns there's more to everyone around her than meets the eye:
** Her fiance Min Ho and her best friend In Jung [[spoiler: have been seeing each other. Longer than Ji Hyun has even known Min Ho, seeing as the two staged their first meeting as part of a scheme to take over her father's company.]]
** Her UnluckyChildhoodFriend Kang is a truly JerkWithAHeartOfGold even though he consistently acted like a complete {{Jerkass}} to Ji Hyun before the accident.
* {{Hikikomori}}: Yi Kyung only goes outside her house when she has to work her graveyard shift at a convenience store; otherwise, she sleeps the whole day. [[spoiler: That is, until Ji Hyun's possession causes her to get fired. Ji Hyun loses a few of her precious 49 days because she could not get the opportunity to take over Yi Kyung's body--due to her not going outside at all until the Scheduler could find a way to get her a nighttime job.]]
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Ji Hyun in Yi Kyung's body does this often - with Min Ho, In Jung and Kang.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Han Kang stepped back when Ji Hyun decided to marry Min Ho.
* IdentityAmnesia: The Scheduler can't remember his past life -- only that there was something important he needed to do.
* ImportantHaircut: Ji Hyun gets an image change [[spoiler:after she successfully prevents Min Ho from registering their marriage]].
* InformedAttractiveness: Yi Kyung is described by Ji Hyun to be very "tall" and "attractive."
* TheIngenue: Ji Hyun, with a small helping of BrainlessBeauty
* IntertwinedFingers: Yi Kyung and Yi Soo in their middle school days.
* ItIsNotYourTime: Ji Hyun was not 'scheduled' to die in the car accident.
* JekyllAndHyde[=/=]SharingABody: Ji Hyun and Yi Kyung are sharing the same body.
* JerkassFacade: Both Kang and the Scheduler attempt to pull this off -- Kang to hide his feelings for Ji Hyun and the Scheduler due to his responsibilities as a [[{{Psychopomp}} Scheduler]] that include staying out of the affairs of humans.
* JustFollowingOrders: The Scheduler. Also his boss.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: It's stated that if a person successfully earns their three tears in the alloted 49 days, when they return to their body they will not retain any of their memories regarding those 49 days in order to uphold TheMasquerade.
* LibationForTheDead: On his mother's deathday, Han Kang poured a glass of her favorite red wine and placed it on the piano where she used to perform.
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Yi Kyung and Ji Hyun are sisters]]
* LoveTriangle: More complicated than usual, thanks to spiritual possession. We have: Ji Hyun/Han Kang/Min Ho, Ji Hyun-in-Yi Kyung's-Body/Han Kang/Min Ho, Min Ho/Ji Hyun/[[spoiler: In Jung]], Min Ho/Ji Hyun-in-Yi Kyung's-Body/[[spoiler: In Jung]] and Han Kang/Ji Hyun/Seo Woo.
* ManlyTears: [[spoiler: Thanks to Han Kang,]] Ji Hyun gets her first teardrop.
* MistakenForAnImposter: [[spoiler: Kang confronts Ji Hyun-in-Yi Kyung's-Body to ask why she "feels like Ji Hyun."]]
* MistakenForCheating: Yi Soo
* NeckSnap: One of The Scheduler's 'appointments' is a young woman who breaks her neck slipping at a pool.
* NeverGotToSayGoodBye: [[spoiler:Yi Soo dies right before planning to reconcile and propose to Yi Kyung. He does get permission from the higher-ups later on to finally tell her, though.]]
* {{Nosebleed}}: A nosebleed in this arc is a sign of overworking. It happens in a flashback, when Yi Soo was working two jobs to make enough money for an engagement ring.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: Ji Hyun experiences this.
* OneSteveLimit: {{Averted}}. Ji Hyun and In Jung have the same last name, Shin. Ends up being a PlotPoint later on.
* PairTheSpares: [[spoiler:Ki Joon and Seo Woo start dating while it's implied Dr. Noh is going out with Soon Jung.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: Yi Kyung was left at an orphanage when she was young.
* PlatonicLifePartners: [[spoiler: Yi Kyung and Han Kang, in the ending.]]
* PoolScene: The Scheduler doing laps at the local community pool. He's working. ''Really.''
* RelativeError: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Ji Hyun first believes Yi Soo to be Yi Kyung's brother, especially since they share the same surname. It turns out that when they met in an orphanage as children, Yi Soo gave Yi Kyung both his surname and the first part of his given name since she didn't know her own.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The Scheduler is really Yi Kyung's boyfriend Yi Soo who got into an accident five years before the show picks up. He's currently working time off as a Scheduler in order for a chance to "finish something important" but that he can't remember.]]
** [[spoiler: Yi Kyung is Ji Hyun's older sister who was kidnapped as a child which is why her tear didn't count towards Ji Hyun's three.]]
* RevealingSkill
* [[spoiler:SecretlyDying]]
* ShirtlessScene: The Scheduler when he goes to a public pool to collect a soul.
* ShoutOut: ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries The Bourne Identity]]'' is mentioned when Ji Hyun and The Scheduler run from a tail hired by Min Ho.
* ShowerScene: Han Kang singing under the showerhead.
* SingleTear
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Although not technically a mentor, the Scheduler is responsible for monitoring Ji Hyun's actions. His decisions to leave her to DieOrFly is justified by what he can do for her is pretty much limited by the rules set by his superiors and he's not allowed to influence any human affairs.
* SpoiledSweet: Ji Hyun.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Yi Kyung/Yi Soo.]]
* [[SempaiKohai Sunbae Hoobae]]: The Scheduler sometimes turns to a senior Scheduler for advice about Ji Hyun's case, and in episode 9 [[NeverMessWithGranny she]] even shows up to punish him for interfering in human affairs.
* SwissArmyTears: Rather than the actual tears themselves, the pure feelings behind tears shed for Ji Hyun are what will allow her to come back to life.
* TeleportSpam: The Scheduler likes doing this a lot. Lampshaded when Ji Hyun asks him why he even needs a motorbike when he could just teleport.
* {{Tsundere}}: Kang who attempted to hide his feelings for Ji Hyun behind a JerkassFacade out of consideration for both her and his friend Min Ho. When Ji Hyun shows up in Yi Kyung's body, he spends half his time blowing up at her and the other half uncharacteristically letting her do whatever she wants.
* TitleDrop: Ji Hyun is told she has 49 days to earn her three tears, although she doesn't actually get to use all 49.
* TogetherInDeath: {{Averted}}. [[spoiler: Both Yi Soo and Ji Hyun urge their loves, Yi Kyung and Kang respectively, to live on.]]
* UnfinishedBusiness: [[spoiler:The Scheduler]] agreed to carry out missions as the DeathReaper because this will give him a chance to resolve whatever he had left unfinished in his previous life.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Kang grew to love Ji Hyun after she defended him in high school and made every effort to become his friend. He eventually had to go overseas for university, but fully intended to come find her and confess his feelings once he was back in South Korea. Unfortunately, Min Ho beat him to it. [[spoiler: And even when she comes to reciprocate his feelings, she dies.]]
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: A strange case between Min Ho and [[spoiler:Yi Kyung]]. [[spoiler:Since Ji Hyun was in possession of Yi Kyung's body and acted friendly prior to discovering Min Ho's HiddenDepths, she came off as being attracted to Min Ho while he's already dating In Jung. Ironically, when Ji Hyun realizes what a ManipulativeBastard he's been all along, she openly gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and [[ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou he falls in love with her]].]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: Ji Hyun thinks she and the Scheduler are friends, he does not.
* WhenEldersAttack: The Scheduler gets smacked around a little for helping out Ji Hyun more than he should by a senior Scheduler. This senior Scheduler happened to be [[NeverMessWithGranny an actual senior citizen]].
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Ji Hyun's fiance Min Ho and her best friend In Jung have been together longer than Ji Hyun herself has been with Min Ho. They continue to meet up behind her back until she witnesses them together. Drving away in confusion, Ji Hyun has her accident.]]
** Yi Kyung accused Yi Soo of this prior to his accident.
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49 Days is a 2011 South KoreanDrama totaling 20 episodes.
Bright, bubbly Shin Ji Hyun is [[SpoiledSweet the girl who has everything]] - wealthy, adoring parents, a devoted fiance (Kang Min Ho), and a long-time best friend (Shin In Jung). On the other side of town, Song Yi Kyung, who once had loved ones and a job at a high-end hotel, is now alone, working at a convenience store, and finding increasingly little to live for.
An unsuccessful suicide attempt by Yi Kyung leads to Ji Hyun's death shortly before her wedding, but as Ji Hyun [[ItIsNotYourTime was not fated to die that day]], the Scheduler (a reaper) gives Ji Hyun a chance to earn back her life.
He gives Ji Hyun permission to take over Yi Kyung's body while she's sleeping. She has 49 days to find three people unrelated by blood who have truly loved her and will cry sincere tears of grief for her. As she sets out to find these people, Ji Hyun discovers that her perfect life may not have been so perfect after all. As the 49 days pass, the lives of Ji Hyun and Yi Kyung collide and just may be the salvation of them both, as they discover the difference between true and false love and begin to come alive again, each in her own way.
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! The series contains examples of:
* ActorAllusion: The Scheduler being a BadassBiker. [[UnstoppableHighKick Hmm..]]
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: Literally, since the souls ride a cosmic elevator into the next life.
* AltarTheSpeed: Ji Hyun's father pushes Min Ho and Ji Hyun to push forward their wedding due to his financial troubles, and they agree to do so only for Ji Hyun to get into the accident.
* BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: Yi Soo comes back for one day. Ji Hyun comes back also, but she wasn't 'technically' dead.]]
* BaitAndSwitch: The first episode starts of with Han Kang [[spoiler: being nervous about Ji Hyun's upcoming engagement party, as if he is Ji Hyun's fiance]].
* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Min Ho and In Jung both carefully planned taking over the Shin family's property and land through deliberately putting Ji Hyun in danger and manipulating her into thinking Min Ho saved her.]]
* BigEater: Ji Hyun, whose stomach is constantly growling
* BitchInSheepsClothing: In Jung, [[spoiler: who set up the hostile takeover two years before the beginning of the arc, using her boyfriend as bait.]]
* BittersweetEnding. [[spoiler: Yes, Ji Hyun and Yi Soo are both dead, but both Ji Hyun's father and his company have been saved, Yi Kyung has finally regained her will to live and found her family, and Min Ho and In Jung have repented for their crimes.]]
* BlatantLies: Ji Hyun (in Yi Kyung's body) pretending not to be Ji Hyun
* BodyAndHost
* TheCameo: Kim Hyung Bum as another 49 day-er, trying to get his tears
* CelestialBureaucracy: The rules and regulations for the 49-Day Traveler are pretty convoluted.
* ChalkOutline: Shown in flashback. It's Song Yi Soo after his fatal accident, and the last thing Yi Kyung thinks about before throwing herself in front of the truck.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: [[spoiler: Yi Soo/Yi Kyung. Ji Hyun/Kang.]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Tears that have been shed evaporate with a colorful poof based on the feelings behind them, with those of pure love evaporating into a white mist.
* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The original Korean title is 49 Il, which is literally ''49 Days'' in English. When free TV network ABS-CBN showed the Filipino dub of the drama two months after it ended its original run, it was titled ''Pure Love'' perhaps to avoid confusion--a homegrown SupernaturalSoapOpera, ''100 Days to Heaven'', already started its run two months earlier. (Both ran during weekday evenings in the PrimeTime block, the former being shown three hours later.)
* ConvenientComa: For both Ji Hyun and her dad President Shin Il Suk.
* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: Song Yi Kyung, when she begins hearing Ji Hyun towards the end of the time limit.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Min Ho, [[spoiler: who 'legally' attempts to wrestle control of Ji Hyun's property and her father's company]]
* DaddysGirl: Ji Hyun
* DeadPersonConversation
* DeaderThanDead: [[spoiler: Both Yi Soo and Ji Hyun who flirt with the afterlife before dying for real.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: The TallDarkAndSnarky Scheduler has many moments of this, especially when it comes to Ji Hyun.
* DeathAmnesia: If Ji Hyun comes back from her coma, she won't remember any of the events since her accident.
* DeathsHourglass: Or in this case, Death's Countdown Cellphone.
* DidNotGetTheGirl: [[spoiler: For ''all'' three main couples.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: Han Kang
* DontFearTheReaper: The Scheduler
* DoubleSpeak: The Scheduler refers to an individual's deaths as 'appointments.'
* DrivenToSuicide: Yi Kyung, who attempts suicide twice. Both times, she's stopped by Dr. Noh.
** It is implied that she frequently attempts suicide due to extreme loneliness.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait: All three male leads.
* EveryoneIsRelated: In the best karmic fashion.
* FetchQuest: Ji Hyun must find three people to cry genuine tears of grief for her. They are to be collected in a teardrop-shaped glass necklace.
* GrandTheftMe: In order to earn her three tears, Ji Hyun is given the opportunity to possess Yi Kyung's body over the course of [[TitleDrop 49 days]] whenever Yi Kyung is sleeping. However, Ji Hyun only possesses Yi Kyung's body because her own is obviously incapacited and because Yi Kyung indirectly caused the accident that put Ji Hyun in a coma.
* GenkiGirl: Ji Hyun
* GhostAmnesia: The Scheduler [[spoiler: until he partially regains his memories and finds out he is Song Yi Soo.]]
* GreenEyedMonster: In Jung's main motivation for her plots.
* GrimReaper: Don't call The Scheduler this. He doesn't like it. Really.
* [[spoiler:HerHeartWillGoOn]]
* HeyItsThatGuy: Yi Kyung is QueenSeondeok.
** The father arranging the wedding, is also the father in Prosecutor Princess.
* HiddenDepths: Ji Hyun learns there's more to everyone around her than meets the eye:
** Her fiance Min Ho and her best friend In Jung [[spoiler: have been seeing each other. Longer than Ji Hyun has even known Min Ho, seeing as the two staged their first meeting as part of a scheme to take over her father's company.]]
** Her UnluckyChildhoodFriend Kang is a truly JerkWithAHeartOfGold even though he consistently acted like a complete {{Jerkass}} to Ji Hyun before the accident.
* {{Hikikomori}}: Yi Kyung only goes outside her house when she has to work her graveyard shift at a convenience store; otherwise, she sleeps the whole day. [[spoiler: That is, until Ji Hyun's possession causes her to get fired. Ji Hyun loses a few of her precious 49 days because she could not get the opportunity to take over Yi Kyung's body--due to her not going outside at all until the Scheduler could find a way to get her a nighttime job.]]
* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Ji Hyun in Yi Kyung's body does this often - with Min Ho, In Jung and Kang.
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Han Kang stepped back when Ji Hyun decided to marry Min Ho.
* IdentityAmnesia: The Scheduler can't remember his past life -- only that there was something important he needed to do.
* ImportantHaircut: Ji Hyun gets an image change [[spoiler:after she successfully prevents Min Ho from registering their marriage]].
* InformedAttractiveness: Yi Kyung is described by Ji Hyun to be very "tall" and "attractive."
* TheIngenue: Ji Hyun, with a small helping of BrainlessBeauty
* IntertwinedFingers: Yi Kyung and Yi Soo in their middle school days.
* ItIsNotYourTime: Ji Hyun was not 'scheduled' to die in the car accident.
* JekyllAndHyde[=/=]SharingABody: Ji Hyun and Yi Kyung are sharing the same body.
* JerkassFacade: Both Kang and the Scheduler attempt to pull this off -- Kang to hide his feelings for Ji Hyun and the Scheduler due to his responsibilities as a [[{{Psychopomp}} Scheduler]] that include staying out of the affairs of humans.
* JustFollowingOrders: The Scheduler. Also his boss.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: It's stated that if a person successfully earns their three tears in the alloted 49 days, when they return to their body they will not retain any of their memories regarding those 49 days in order to uphold TheMasquerade.
* LibationForTheDead: On his mother's deathday, Han Kang poured a glass of her favorite red wine and placed it on the piano where she used to perform.
* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler: Yi Kyung and Ji Hyun are sisters]]
* LoveTriangle: More complicated than usual, thanks to spiritual possession. We have: Ji Hyun/Han Kang/Min Ho, Ji Hyun-in-Yi Kyung's-Body/Han Kang/Min Ho, Min Ho/Ji Hyun/[[spoiler: In Jung]], Min Ho/Ji Hyun-in-Yi Kyung's-Body/[[spoiler: In Jung]] and Han Kang/Ji Hyun/Seo Woo.
* ManlyTears: [[spoiler: Thanks to Han Kang,]] Ji Hyun gets her first teardrop.
* MistakenForAnImposter: [[spoiler: Kang confronts Ji Hyun-in-Yi Kyung's-Body to ask why she "feels like Ji Hyun."]]
* MistakenForCheating: Yi Soo
* NeckSnap: One of The Scheduler's 'appointments' is a young woman who breaks her neck slipping at a pool.
* NeverGotToSayGoodBye: [[spoiler:Yi Soo dies right before planning to reconcile and propose to Yi Kyung. He does get permission from the higher-ups later on to finally tell her, though.]]
* {{Nosebleed}}: A nosebleed in this arc is a sign of overworking. It happens in a flashback, when Yi Soo was working two jobs to make enough money for an engagement ring.
* TheNothingAfterDeath: Ji Hyun experiences this.
* OneSteveLimit: {{Averted}}. Ji Hyun and In Jung have the same last name, Shin. Ends up being a PlotPoint later on.
* PairTheSpares: [[spoiler:Ki Joon and Seo Woo start dating while it's implied Dr. Noh is going out with Soon Jung.]]
* ParentalAbandonment: Yi Kyung was left at an orphanage when she was young.
* PlatonicLifePartners: [[spoiler: Yi Kyung and Han Kang, in the ending.]]
* PoolScene: The Scheduler doing laps at the local community pool. He's working. ''Really.''
* RelativeError: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]. Ji Hyun first believes Yi Soo to be Yi Kyung's brother, especially since they share the same surname. It turns out that when they met in an orphanage as children, Yi Soo gave Yi Kyung both his surname and the first part of his given name since she didn't know her own.
* TheReveal: [[spoiler: The Scheduler is really Yi Kyung's boyfriend Yi Soo who got into an accident five years before the show picks up. He's currently working time off as a Scheduler in order for a chance to "finish something important" but that he can't remember.]]
** [[spoiler: Yi Kyung is Ji Hyun's older sister who was kidnapped as a child which is why her tear didn't count towards Ji Hyun's three.]]
* RevealingSkill
* [[spoiler:SecretlyDying]]
* ShirtlessScene: The Scheduler when he goes to a public pool to collect a soul.
* ShoutOut: ''[[Film/TheBourneSeries The Bourne Identity]]'' is mentioned when Ji Hyun and The Scheduler run from a tail hired by Min Ho.
* ShowerScene: Han Kang singing under the showerhead.
* SingleTear
* SinkOrSwimMentor: Although not technically a mentor, the Scheduler is responsible for monitoring Ji Hyun's actions. His decisions to leave her to DieOrFly is justified by what he can do for her is pretty much limited by the rules set by his superiors and he's not allowed to influence any human affairs.
* SpoiledSweet: Ji Hyun.
* StarCrossedLovers: [[spoiler: Yi Kyung/Yi Soo.]]
* [[SempaiKohai Sunbae Hoobae]]: The Scheduler sometimes turns to a senior Scheduler for advice about Ji Hyun's case, and in episode 9 [[NeverMessWithGranny she]] even shows up to punish him for interfering in human affairs.
* SwissArmyTears: Rather than the actual tears themselves, the pure feelings behind tears shed for Ji Hyun are what will allow her to come back to life.
* TeleportSpam: The Scheduler likes doing this a lot. Lampshaded when Ji Hyun asks him why he even needs a motorbike when he could just teleport.
* {{Tsundere}}: Kang who attempted to hide his feelings for Ji Hyun behind a JerkassFacade out of consideration for both her and his friend Min Ho. When Ji Hyun shows up in Yi Kyung's body, he spends half his time blowing up at her and the other half uncharacteristically letting her do whatever she wants.
* TitleDrop: Ji Hyun is told she has 49 days to earn her three tears, although she doesn't actually get to use all 49.
* TogetherInDeath: {{Averted}}. [[spoiler: Both Yi Soo and Ji Hyun urge their loves, Yi Kyung and Kang respectively, to live on.]]
* UnfinishedBusiness: [[spoiler:The Scheduler]] agreed to carry out missions as the DeathReaper because this will give him a chance to resolve whatever he had left unfinished in his previous life.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Kang grew to love Ji Hyun after she defended him in high school and made every effort to become his friend. He eventually had to go overseas for university, but fully intended to come find her and confess his feelings once he was back in South Korea. Unfortunately, Min Ho beat him to it. [[spoiler: And even when she comes to reciprocate his feelings, she dies.]]
* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo: A strange case between Min Ho and [[spoiler:Yi Kyung]]. [[spoiler:Since Ji Hyun was in possession of Yi Kyung's body and acted friendly prior to discovering Min Ho's HiddenDepths, she came off as being attracted to Min Ho while he's already dating In Jung. Ironically, when Ji Hyun realizes what a ManipulativeBastard he's been all along, she openly gives him a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech and [[ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou he falls in love with her]].]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: Ji Hyun thinks she and the Scheduler are friends, he does not.
* WhenEldersAttack: The Scheduler gets smacked around a little for helping out Ji Hyun more than he should by a senior Scheduler. This senior Scheduler happened to be [[NeverMessWithGranny an actual senior citizen]].
* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Ji Hyun's fiance Min Ho and her best friend In Jung have been together longer than Ji Hyun herself has been with Min Ho. They continue to meet up behind her back until she witnesses them together. Drving away in confusion, Ji Hyun has her accident.]]
** Yi Kyung accused Yi Soo of this prior to his accident.
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