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Always Meet Again (언제나 다시 만나)

Always Meet Again (언제나 다시 만나; also romanized Eonjena Dasi Manna, and released internationally as We'll Always Meet Again) is a 2026 South Korean boys' love (BL) fantasy romance web series in which a painter is sent back to his high school days and gets a second chance with his first love. It consists of 8 episodes of about 30 minutes each, aired in South Korea from March 5 to March 26, 2026, and carries a 15+ content rating.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Native title	언제나 다시 만나 (Eonjena Dasi Manna); alternative titles include We'll Always Meet Again, めぐり逢うぼくら, and 總會再相遇¹^•³
Format	8 episodes, about 30 minutes each; fantasy, romance, youth genres; 15+ rating¹^•²
Aired	March 5 to March 26, 2026, Thursdays at 6 p.m. KST, two episodes per week⁴^•⁵
Premise	Painter Jang Hye Seong redraws a half-torn portrait of his first love Lee U Jin and is transported back to 2008, his high school days¹
Leads	Woo Ji Han as Jang Hye Seong and Shin Jeong You as Lee U Jin, reuniting after A Breeze of Love (2023)⁶
Director and writers	Directed by Shin Dong-hoon; written by Choi Ji-an and Jeong Yu-gyeong³
Streaming	Heavenly in South Korea; iQIYI internationally; FOD exclusively in Japan; also listed on GagaOOLala and Wavve⁷^•⁸

Spoilers

Premise

The plot centers on Jang Hye Seong, a famous painter who, at the behest of his friend Tae Jun, returns to Seongjin High School, where he once studied, to deliver a special lecture. During a break he stops by the art room and finds his old sketchbook, which contains a half-torn drawing of Lee U Jin, his first love. On impulse he redraws the portrait, and the moment he finishes, he is transported back to 2008, his high school days, where he reunites with U Jin.¹

Second chance. Having returned to the past, Hye Seong does not want to repeat the mistakes he made back then and tries to keep his distance from U Jin, but U Jin boldly and persistently comes closer. The Heavenly synopsis adds that Hye Seong was once forced to distance himself from Woojin for Woojin's sake, and that the time slip takes him back 17 years, to the very day he transferred to Seongjin High School.¹^•⁹ Soompi's preview describes the protagonist as a 35-year-old Hye Seong who slips 17 years into the past.⁴ The iQIYI description adds a fantasy mechanic: Hye Seong loses the color of the world when he touches Woojin, and he faces a renewed dilemma between his dream and love.¹⁰ A reviewer's summary states that the protagonist also tries to change history by saving a classmate from a tragic accident.⁶

Production and cast

The series is an original drama of idol romance, the BL-focused content brand behind Outside the Fence Is a Happy Ending and Something's Not Right, produced by Moving Pictures Company with Flash ENT also credited as a studio.⁸^•³ Shin Dong-hoon directed, from scripts by Choi Ji-an and Jeong Yu-gyeong.³

The two leads had previously co-starred in the 2023 drama A Breeze of Love, and their reunion was a selling point of the promotion. Fuji Television's press release describes Shin Jeong You as a gentle prince-like type and Woo Ji Han as comic and boyish, and notes the pair's established popularity among Korean BL viewers.⁸ Supporting cast listed by MyDramaDB includes Seo Seung Hyun as Tae Jun, a friend of the two leads; Min Do Hee as Jang Eun Ha, Hye Seong's older sister and a nurse at Seongjin High School; Kim Hyung Min as a physical education teacher; and Kim Tae Hyeong as an art teacher.¹¹

There is a discrepancy in cast listings for the male lead: MyDramaDB, KoreanDrama.org, and the BL press credit Woo Ji Han as Jang Hye Seong,¹¹^•⁴ while TVmaze and Next Episode list Kim Myung Chan in that role.⁵^•¹²

Release and streaming

The series premiered on March 5, 2026, airing Thursdays at 6 p.m. KST with two episodes per week, and concluded on March 26, 2026.⁴^•² In South Korea it streamed on the Heavenly platform, whose official site is heavenly.tv.⁵^•⁹ Internationally it was available on iQIYI, and hanbuzz also lists Wavve for South Korea and GagaOOLala.⁷ In Japan, Fuji Television's streaming service FOD carried it exclusively from March 5, 2026, under the title めぐり逢うぼくら Always Meet Again, releasing two episodes every Thursday.⁸

Reception

Audience scores were moderate to favorable. IMDb shows a weighted rating of 7.0/10 from 220 users, with an unweighted mean of 7.6 and per-episode scores ranging from 7.6 to 8.6.¹³ KoreanDrama.org lists 7.8 from 2,277 votes.¹ On MyShows, the series averaged 4.65 out of 5 as of October 2026, with the premiere episode the highest rated at 4.80.¹⁴

Critical response. The BL Watcher review, scoring the series 7.0, praised the cinematography, calling the locations and intimate close-ups oil-painting-like, and found both leads charismatic, but criticized the second half, in which the time-travel plot takes over and the writing becomes, in the reviewer's view, clunky and incoherent; the review notes there is technically a happy ending, with the finale prolonging the suspense over Woojin's fate.⁶ My Asian Binge gave a 7.9/10 MAB score, recommending the series for its time-travel execution, emotional payoff, and the leads' dynamic.¹⁵

Music

An OST album was released on August 6, 2026, distributed by Genie Music and planned by DSP Media and Moving Pictures Company, with a total running time of 56:37. It collects the five previously released single OSTs together with 15 score tracks used in the drama. The title track, "Always Meet Again," is performed by Kim Jong-cheon, and the album opens with LIMZY's "어쩌면 첫 만남이 아닐지도 몰라" ("Maybe It Wasn't Our First Meeting"), written and composed by Lee Yong-min and Choi Jae-hyuk of Urbane Music.¹⁶ The album notes describe the drama as a youth fantasy romance about a first love reunited across time, depicting young people's earnest love and growth as they repeat their choices to protect each other amid fading memories and shifting time.¹⁶

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › International serial drama and telenovelas › East Asian drama series › Korean contemporary drama › Fantasy, supernatural, and science fiction series › Premiered 2023 to 2027

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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