Nine: Nine Time Travels (Season 1)

Nine: Nine Time Travels (2013) is a South Korean sci-fi drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Kim Byung-soo. News anchor Park Sun-Woo comes across nine incense sticks that each send him exactly twenty years back in time. Nine trips total. Then they are gone.

His brother died. Things went wrong around that. His colleague Joo Min-Young does not know yet that he is in love with her. Park Sun-Woo starts using the sticks to fix what can be fixed — but every adjustment in 1992 ripples into 2012 in ways he did not predict, and the sticks keep running down.

The show is disciplined about its own rules, which is what separates good time-travel drama from the kind that just waves its hands. Lee Jin-uk plays the lead with the right mix of purpose and slowly mounting dread. For viewers who want a Korean romance with genuine science-fiction structure underneath, this one delivers. Watch Nine: Nine Time Travels online on iFILM.