8/10 is my rating. This is a 2016 supernatural comedy romance with 16, 60 minute, episodes. It is also known as Come Back Alive.
Shin Da-hye (Lee Min-jung) is the wife of a nondescript apartment store manager at a Department Store. Kim Young-soo (Kim In-kwon) knows he neglects his beautiful wife for work and always promises they will spend more time together in the future. That future is cut short when he falls to his death while trying to repair something. Even in death, his company fails to properly acknowledge him and attributes his death to suicide so they are not accused of overworking their employees. Young-soo arrives in the Afterlife at the same time as Han Gi-tak (Kim Soo-ro) who also died suddenly. Gi-tak is a successful restaurant owner with a young staff he considers family. Because he was formerly a gangster, his love for Actress Song Yi-yeon (Lee Ha-nui) ended because she could not be associated with his former lifestyle. Yi-yeon shows up suddenly to ask for help in a blackmail situation her ex husband, Cha Jae-gook (Choi Won-young), perpetrated to gain custody of their child. has whipped up a scandal to force her to give him their child, and threatens Yi-yeon with it. In pursuit of a blackmailer, Gi-tak gets in a car accident and comes to close to Young-soo. While being processed to head to Heaven the two men determine they must go back to resolve some things. After a desperate escape, both men are given two months to wrap up their unresolved issues. There are, of course, a list of exceptions and rules. Each man is sent back in a new body, the gangster as a beautiful woman, Han Hong-nan (Oh Yeon-seo), and the store section manager as an attracrptive young man, Lee Hae-joon (Rain). From the beginning both “men” have a hard time following the AfterLife’s three rules: 1) They can not reveal their true identities. 2) Revenge is forbidden. 3) They cannot engage in human affairs.

spollers**. as a comedy there were some laugh out loud funny moments. The older gangster guy winding up in a young attractive female body lent it self to some very funny situations. It was also amusing that this middle-aged nerdy looking guy comes back as a handsome well-built Chaebol son. The story around their lives and the people they came back for is really interesting and I loved the friendships that developed and the interplay between all the characters. It would be very hard if you came back and people did not recognize you to avoid telling those you cared about who you were and what he knew especially when you see them suffering over your death. There were bad guys that were doing things that added some conflict to the story. It was one of the few I have watched were well into it I was not sure who would wind up with whom or if anyone would wind up together romantically and how it might end up. I thought of at least three possibilities and hoped that the first two would be the ending. I like happy and I don’t care for trying to make it very real. If it ended one of the ways I hoped for I would’ve rated this much higher because the majority of it was very good. However the fact that one of them was basically erased from everyone’s memory and the other left a big hole in everyone’s lives did not seem like a good ending it left me feeling rather sad. At the end of it they were showing possible reincarnations and the characters were reacting to them sort of like I know you from somewhere but you have no idea if they would get together or if it was just to show that those particular beings tend to revolve around each other as one of the philosophies of reincarnation. If you are OK with an ending that is not completely happy this is definitely worth watching for the first 14 or so episodes. The last tso episodes are not really bad and it does wrap up a lot of plot points but if you’re like me and were hoping for some of the happier outcomes that just doesn’t happen.