I'll be adding dates as they happen in the show. Some of the dates are guesses as there are some editing mistakes made by production which makes things a bit more difficult to pin exact dates to events.
Some timeline entries are real historical timeline events for context. Which is also how I'm able to keep track of the exact date of events.
Future edits may also depend on the finalized time travel method used in the show. aka loop vs changing events. Episode 7 confirms that she is changing future events.
This has more or less turned into an episode timeline breakdown/timestamps. Please do not read any further if you to not want to be MAJORLY spoiled about events that happen in the show. As the editing is done in a way to keep you guessing please look at your own risk as I will not be masking any text as the entire discussion is a spoiler.
Original Timeline/Historical Events:
May 3, 1990:
October 20, 1990:
Spring/Early Summer 2008:
- Ryu Sun Jae moves in the the house across the street
Late April/Early May 2008:
- Ryu Sun Jae falls for Im Sol at first sight when she mistakes him for a delivery man
May 2, 2008:
- Ryu Sun Jae rents 'Basic Instinct' from Im Sol's shop as an excuse to see her/cover up why he was in the store.
June 2008:
- Swimming meet test run before Beijing Olympics.
June 10, 2008:
- Im Sol confesses to her crush/idol Kim Tae Sung.
July 2008:
- Ryu Sun Jae's last swim meet
- Sun Jae's arm is re-injured and is no longer able to swim competitively
- House fire that leads to burns on Im Sol's mother's hands
August 10, 2008:
- ParkTae Hwan wins the Olympic Gold medal in the men's 400m freestyle
August 16, 2008:
- Jang Mi-Ran wins Gold at Beijing Olympics for weightlifting, setting new Olympic and World records in Snatch and Clean & Jerk
- Anniversary of Im Sol's father's death
August 22, 2008:
- Semi final Olympic Baseball game, South Korea(6) v Japan(2)
August 23, 2008:
- Gold Medal Final Olympic Baseball game, South Korea(3) v Cuba(2)
September 1, 2008:
- Unknown accident causes Im Sol to lose the ability to use her legs.
- (Ep 7)Im Sol falls asleep on the last bus missing her stop. She is kidnapped and then rundown by the kidnapper and thrown into the reservoir. Sun Jae witnesses the hit and run and dives into save her from the water, pulling her to shore. The abductor comes back. A struggle ensues between Sun Jae and the attacker. Sun Jae is able to hold him until the police arrive to arrest him
- Ryu Sun Jae's watch breaks when struggling with the attacker.
- 11:53PM Sun Jae holds his broken watch and cries for Im Sol, feeling guilty for not waking her for her stop on the bus
January 5, 2009:
- SNSD Girls Generation release "Gee"
May 2009:
- Eclipse debuts as a four member band
July 22, 2009:
- Day of solar eclipse
- SNSD/Girls Generation releases "Genie"
- Radio phone call with Im Sol when she is about to take her life
Summer 2013: ep 6 flashback
- Ryu Sun Jae talks about his first love on a radio show to promote his first movie role. Talks about Im Sol vaguely(rain, yellow umbrella) as his inspiration for writing "Sudden Shower" being about his first love
December 31 2022:
- Eclipse holds their first concert in five years
- Im Sol sees her idol Ryu Sun Jae on the Han River Bridge
- Sun Jae is visited by someone at is hotel room a few hours before midnight
- 11:30 pm News comes in of Sun Jae having an accident and is being rushed to the hospital
January 1, 2023:
- Midnight: Ryu Sun Jae is pronounced dead
- Im Sol is transported back into the past.
Time Traveling Timeline 1st & 2nd:
June 11, 2008: ep 1
- Im Sol wakes in her classroom
July 18, 2008: ep 3
- Ryu Sun Jae confesses to a drunk Im Sol at the pool & kisses her(Ep. 3) Confession recorded on her MP3 player
July 19, 2008: ep 3/4
- Older Im Sol has left the past. Young Im Sol accepts Tae Sung's confession
Start of 2nd Time Travel:
July 29, 2008: ep4
- Older Im Sol has returned to the past at night
August 2, 2008: ep 4
- Tae Sung's 18th birthday
- Im Sol falls into the reservoir and Sun Jae dives in to save her
August 10, 2008: ep5
August 11, 2008: ep5
- Im Sol goes to find her phone at the reservoir; She hears of a body being buried; She hears the sound of bells on a keychain causing small flashbacks of her being in a car
- Sus as hell taxi driver, with bell keychain is shown to have her cell phone with her photo on it
August 17, 2008: ep5
- Im Sol watches Ryu Sun Jae perform with Eclipse for the first time
August 18, 2008: ep5
- Ryu Sun Jae asks Im Sol to break up with Tae Sung
- Im Sol finally hears the recorded confession from Sun Jae
August 20, 2008: ep 6
- Ryu Sun Jae shows up to study with Im Sol and they have dinner together while the Korea v Netherlands game plays in the background
- Tae Sung gets into a motorcycle accident
August 22, 2008: ep6
- Im Sol's mother goes on a short "vacation" for the weekend
- Tae Sung's father, Detective Kim, passes Im Sol in the police station when she tries to warn the police about something happening to her on September 1st.
- Grandmother gives their address to the taxi driver who has Im Sol's cell phone
August 23, 2008: ep6
- Ryu Sun Jae and Im Sol watch the Gold Medal Final Olympic Baseball game, South Korea(3) v Cuba(2) out on the street
- Tae Sung sees Im Sol's mother at the hospital receiving treatment
- Sun Jae confesses to Im Sol after South Korea wins 3v2
- Tae Sung calls Sun Jae before Im Sol's response to tell him about her mother being in the hospital
- Im Sol's mother has surgery
August 2008: ep6
- Im Sol rejects Ryu Sun Jae's confession
September 1, 2008: ep6
- Im Soll skips the first day of school to stay inside
- 10PM: Im Sol's brother asks her to bring a phone charger to the hospital, she refuses
- Sun Jae finds Im Sol's umbrella at the study library and asks her to meet him at the playground near their house; he doesn't see her reply telling him not to wait.
- Im Sol realizes that she was always Ryu Sun Jae's first love when she finally remembers the first time they met in the rain
- On her way to Sun Jae, Im Sol is abducted by the taxi driver and drops her yellow umbrella. Sun Jae finds it on the ground.
September 1, 2008: ep 7
- Sun Jae tries to find Im Sol, but is struggling to have people believe him. He starts to realize that something is different about Im Sol
- Im Sol finally remembers what happened 15 years ago, and uses that knowledge to escape faster/smarter
- Tae Sung's Father, a detective, finds Im Sol collapsed on the road as Sun Jae runs to her
- Im Sol time-slips forward in time. Young Im Sol is back & can't remember being taken or who Sun Jae is.
May 10, 2009: Ep 9
- Ryu Sun Jae finds Im Sol's belongings on the street hears a scream and calls her phone after calling the police. He hears the ringtone and follows the sound. He finds an exhausted Im Sol running from a man(Kim Young Soo) who then tries to flee, but Ryu Sun Jae chases him down and fights with him.
June 2022: Ep 8
- Ryu Sun Jae retrieves the time capsule from the tree right before it is being removed.
January 1, 2023 RSJ's POV: Ep 8
- Sun Jae waits for Im Sol at the Han River Bridge for over an hour holding the unopened time capsule, and is photographed by paparazzi and asked what he's filming
January 1, 2023: ep 7
- Im Sol comes back to the present for the second time on the set of a drama shoot
- She works for the company that she had applied for in Ep 1.
- The time-capsule tree is no longer present when she tries to meet RSJ
- Im Sol is mistaken for a stalker fan outside of Sun Jae's apartment building and brought to the police station
January 2023: Ep 7
- Im Sol is reprimanded at work for Sun Jae refusing their script after the "stalker" incident.
January 14, 2023:
- Im Sol bumps into Ryu Sun Jae causing him to fall into a fountain
- Lee Hyun Joo gives birth to her and Im Geum's second child
January 15, 2023: Ep 7
- Im Sol sees a letter/mail but she is interrupted before she can read it's contents. (IMO this is informing her that her attacker has been released from prison. we shall see)
- Im Sol is brought back into the police station to sign a restraining order agreement
- Eclipse postponed concert is held 13-15th
- Once again Im Sol is bumped into outside of the concert hall after the concert by a stranger, cracking her phone screen(confirmed in ep 8 to be Kim Young Woo aka her abductor/attacker aka taxi driver)
- 11:10 PM Im Sol and Sun Jae reunite once more on the Han River Bridge in the snow
January 15-16, 2023: Ep8
- Confirmation that the man who bumped into Im Sol at the concert is her and Sun Jae's kidnapper/attacker
- Sun Jae takes Im Sol to a hotel bar for drinks to talk(hilarity ensues)
- They are spotted by fans/paparazzi and Im Sol "absconds" with Sun Jae in her car and heads to his apartment
- While at Sun Jae's apartment Im Sol gets word that her mother and grandmother have left their apartment because of a busted pipe
- We see Kim Tae Sung standing outside of Im Sol's apartment complex looking up at her apartment door.
- Im Sol overhears Baek In Hyuk talking to Sun Jae about Sun Jae's feelings for her, and how whenever RSJ gets drunk he ALWAYS ends up in front of her old house crying.(poor baby Sun Jae...the pining?) Baek In Hyuk is the best...it is decided
- Early morning 16th: Im Sol confesses that she felt the same about Ryu Sun Jae in the past
- Sun Jae and Im Sol kiss(read as make out ?) in her apartment entranceway. She notices a small scar on his forehead and then they are interrupted by the maintenance man trying to fix the broken pipe
- Taxi driver sees Ryu Sun Jae leaving Im Sol's apartment in a sports car
January 16, 2023: Ep 8
- Sun Jae and Im Sol make plans to met up later that night
- Im Sol forgets to turn her phone back on after her work meeting
- RSJ is informed that photographers are waiting at his apartment so he goes to THE hotel instead and tries to call Im Sol
- 8PM Im Sol turns her phone back on & goes to pick up her car from Sun Jae's apartment. He misses her phone call. When leaving the parking lot she ends up chasing down the real "white padding" stalker fan, who turns out to be a 14 year old runaway
- While waiting in the hotel suite RSJ gets a call from his manager asking what room he's in right when the doorbell rings.
- While giving a meal to the 14 year old fan Im Sol sees news that Sun Jae has been attacked and stabbed in his hotel room and is being rushed to the hospital. The perpetrator is her kidnapper/attacker. (Context: It's extremely rare for the image of a perpetrator or victim to be shown on the news. This means that he is on the run and still at large and an active search is happening. There are very strict privacy laws in South Korea...even for convicted murderers.)
January 16/17, 2023: Ep 9
- Ryu Sun Jae undergoes emergency surgery after being stabbed in his hotel room.
- Im Sol frantically searches for the missing watch amongst Ryu Sun Jae's belongings
January 2023: Ep 9
- Im Sol talks with Detective Kim(Kim Tae Sung's father) about her abduction on May 10th 2009. He explains that Sun Jae was the sole witness to her attack and that it was his testimony that put Kim Young Soo away. Im Sol now completely blames herself for Ryu Sun Jae's first death, and potential death
- Im Sol finds the missing watch on her grandmother's wrist
- Midnight: Im Sol goes back in time for the last time
3rd "Final" Time Traveling Timeline:
March 17, 2009: Ep 9
- Im Sol wakes on top of a statue at YeonSeo University(Sounds like Yonsei, the SKY private university that the high school scenes are shot at. I can not for the life of me locate/tell if the statue exists outside of the drama)
- Ryu Sun Jae can tell that Im Sol is "different" when she runs from him after he catches her when she falls off the statue of two horses.
- Im Sol kicks off an investigation into Kim Young Woo with the car keys she took the night she was taken on the 1st of September.
- After purchasing self defense tools Im Sol runs into Kim Tae Sung, who has successfully graduated high school
- Kim Tae Sung is running an online shopping mall and calls out the difference in Im Sol's personality again "Mature Im Sol is back"
- Ryu Sun Jae plays "Sudden Shower" in Baek In Hyuk's practice room. In Hyuk tries to convince RSJ to join Eclipse. (Kim Tae Sung is no longer a member of Eclipse; reason unknown)
March 18, 2009: Ep 9
- Communications Department and the Physical Education Department of YeonSeo University hold their MT(Member training/Retreat) together
- Im Sol repeatedly tries to flee the retreat while avoiding Ryu Sun Jae
March 18/19 2009: Ep 9
- Im Sol after repeated failed attempts to leave the MT early gets drunk(still mourning the potential loss of Sun Jae for a second time)
- Im Geum and Lee Hyun Joo Spiderman kiss
- Sun Jae finds a drunk Im Sol about to fall off another high object and tries to get her down resulting in an accidental kiss. (Legend says that those who kiss on the YeonSeo MT will eventually get married.)
- While carrying Im Sol on his back she sings "Sudden Shower" a song that Sun Jae wrote and only one other person knows exists
March (20-22?), 2009: Ep 9
- Baek In Hyuk looks into auditioning for Superstar K1(Season 1: July 24, 2009-October 9, 2009; Trivia: Seo In Guk was the first place winner)
- Police locate Kim Young Woo's secret building thanks to a hand drawn map by Im Sol, but they are too late. Young Woo has started a fire, burning all the evidence.
- Im Sol is told that the evidence has been burnt down and plans to run away so she's not near Ryu Sun Jae when Kim Young Woo comes looking for her again.
- Ryu Sun Jae confronts Im Sol about who she is and being from the future
Late March, 2009: Ep 10
- Im Sol tells Sun Jae she is from the future; He doesn't fully believe her and thinks it's another rejection
March 31, 2009: Ep 10
- Im Sol sees Sun Jae at a restaurant with another girl and thinks she sees them kiss(bad angle and closing her eyes)
- Im Sol tells Sun Jae that she's never liked him(liar liar pants on fire)
April 1, 2009: Ep 10
- Kim Tae Sung finds out about Im Sol's kidnapping last September from his father.
April 2, 2009: Ep10
- Ryu Sun Jae agrees to audition with Baek In Hyuk's band Eclipse for Superstar K
- Im Sol tells Kim Tae Sung that she's from the future and to protect Ryu Sun Jae
- Eclipse practice for the audition. Sun Jae really thinks about how Im Sol could possibly know the song he wrote about her
- Sun Jae's father books him a plane ticket to go to rehab in the states after a last minute opening
- Sun Jae and Tae Sung help Im Sol & her mother with flooding in the video store.
April 3, 2009: Ep 10
- After midnight: Tae Sung stays at Sun Jae's place for the night. He tells Sun Jae that he doesn't need to be jealous of him, and that he's blind if he doesn't see Im Sol's feelings for him.
April 10, 2009: Ep 10
- 7:30PM Sun Jae's flight to Los Angeles
- Superstar K audition
- Sun Jae misses his flight and digs up the time capsule, realizes that he dies in 2023 and that Im Sol is somehow connected to his death
- Sun Jae confirms Im Sol's feelings and kisses her, telling her that it doesn't matter if he dies protecting her
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